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If nothing else, Akbar Al Baker knows how to tantalize. Standing a dozen feet from Bombardier Inc. president Pierre Beaudoin, the CEO of Qatar Airways teased his lunchtime audience with an announcement that seemed to be the breakthrough long anticipated – an actual order, at long last, for between 20 and 30 CSeries, Bombardier’s future airliner.

the Arab League and the African Union have shown eagerness to appease al-Bashir, asserting that the West (in which they include the International Criminal Court even though it has 108 member states from all regions of the world) has shown “double-standards” in enforcing the law on the most serious crimes of which al-Bashir stands accused.